Whats it all about

This is an online video sketch book. To share my work and process for critique and commentary.

The works presented here may or may not to be read as finished pieces, they are and this is, for the moment simply a platform for experiments. As such some videos will over time be reworked. This will be evident by version numbers ie v1.0 or v1.2 etc.

I am currently a student on the Masters of Fine Art at the University of Ulster Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Artists and film makers I am particularly inspired by are Chris Marker, Andrey Tarkovsky, Guy Debord, Hal Hartley, Samuel Beckett, Bruce Nauman. Fluxus and Situationists.

If you have any questions or comments feel free to contact me – kev.flanagan(at)gmail(dot)com

Related Writings -

The Revolution of Everyday Life:
The Reversal of Perspective
by Raoul Vaneigem

Chapter 20 “Creativity, Spontaneity, and Poetry”

Human beings are in a state of creativity twenty-four hours a day. Once revealed, the scheming use of freedom by the mechanisms of domination produces a backlash in the form of an idea of authentic freedom inseparably bound up with individual creativity. The passion to create which issues from the consciousness of constraint can no longer be pressed into the service of production, consumption or organization.

(1). Spontaneity is the mode of existence of creativity; not an isolated state, but the unmediated experience of subjectivity. Spontaneity concretizes the passion for creation and is the first moment of its practical realization: the precondition of poetry, of the impulse to change the world in accordance with the demands of radical subjectivity.

(2). The qualitative exists wherever creative spontaneity manifests itself. It entails the direct communication of the essential. It is poetry’s chance. A crystallization of possibilities, a multiplier of knowledge and practical potential, and the proper modis operandi of intelligence. Its criteria are sui generis. The qualitative leap precipitates a chain reaction which is to be seen in all revolutionary moments; such a reaction must be awoken by the scandal of free and total creativity.

(3). Poetry is the organizer of creative spontaneity to the extent that it reinforces spontaneity’s hold on reality. Poetry is an act which engenders new realities; it is the fulfilment of radical theory, the revolutionary act par excellence.

http://library.nothingness.org/articles/SI/en/display/66